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More than a decade of dominance is tough to overcome between the ropes, much less between the ears of decidedly casual followers.
Over the past couple of months, my 7-year-old has become mildly interested in golf, dropping in the occasional dinner-table question about a game his old man annually spends roughly 20 weeks on the road covering. A few weeks back, between bites, he asked which player sat atop the world rankings.
The answer was unequivocal, given that the current No. 1 had just won the money titles on the European and PGA tours. The next day, he came home after school looking like I had mis-clubbed him or something.
"I told the other kids that Luke Donald is the No. 1 player in the world," he said....
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